Figured I’d finally make a thread about my shitbox honda that I love way more than makes sense.
Car is a 97 Accord LX sedan that’s been in my family since it was new, and became mine in 2008 with a bit over 70k on it.
Currently it has almost 142k on it, I’ve replaced surprisingly little shit. Instead of getting a different car, I see it as much easier to just change the few things I don’t like as much about this one. As far as what’s left, I wish it cornered slightly better (progress rear sway bar will fix this), had a bit more noise from the exhaust (easily fixable), had more supportive seats (if I come across a set of tan cloth 4th gen prelude buckets I’ll probably grab them), and was a bit faster. Otherwise the car’s awesome.
It looked like a stock 97 LX when I got it, steelies with covers, no rust.
Threw blackhoused headlights on it, and promptly hit a deer the next night:
Bent back the hood, bought a new headlight, put amber corners on, and drove it like that for a while. Spring 2009, with highschool (read: in better shape) me sitting on the damaged part:
Honda’s clearcoat was not the greatest in the 1990’s:
Installed a typical 17 year old stereo in it. Pioneer DEH-P3000 headunit, and a pair of kenwood 12’s fed by a profile AP1000M amplifier.
Got a set of alloys of a 93 EX. Eventually decided to attempt to wetsand the clearcoat to find some good paint underneath. Here’s how that ended up:
Deal fell through with the person who was originally going to paint it, so it basically looked like that for the better part of a year.
Honda’s pretty awesome at making things rust, even plastic:
Eventually it got painted summer of 2011:
Drove it around that way for a while. Points to whoever can tell me where this is:
Lowered it last summer on some eibach sportlines, weirdly don’t have any pictures handy. Here’s it on the snow tires though:
Our first big storm last winter. People said it was gonna suck in the snow. It didn’t:
Because lack of money, I only recently got the snow tires off the car. Picked up a set of wheels, and a friend hooked me up with the tires off his wrecked TSX. TSW Turn 5’s, 17X7 45mm offset. Powdercoated “bronze” by the previous owner. 215/50 R17 tires, which are sorta gigantic (almost an inch larger in diameter than stock) so they fill the wheel wells nicely without rubbing (just barely). I’m probably going to re paint them gunmetal this winter.
I really need to wash it and make all the black plastic trim actually be black again. Corner lights could use a refresh too. Probably this weekend. Wheels sometimes look more brown than bronze. Considering the anthracite plasti dip true metallic.
